Megan Hilty Quotes
I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.
Quotes to Explore
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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My mom and I are very close.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on, they've been touching on that, but I don't focus on the scale.
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I love hard; I love who I love, and I don't make any qualms about it.
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My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.
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I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.
